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PHILOSOPHY > philosopher, poet, essayist > Ralph Waldo Emerson
The office of...
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The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances. He plies the slow, unhonored, and unpaid task of observation. . . . He is the world's eye.
Source: The American Scholar, lecture, 31 Aug 1837, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard University; in Nature, Addresses and Lectures, 1849.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, (May 25 1803-1882), US philosopher, poet, essayist; He was the main spokesman of his time for moral optimism and belief in the individual: Self-Reliance, 1844.